"I know how he feels. I'm just good at hiding it."

Ratchet decided to run his scanner over Wolf. He was hoping there was a way to bring her back along with Sunny.

After he ran the scanner over Wolf's body, Ratchet was shocked at the results.

"Prime, she's still functional. I have no idea how, but she is."

"Can she be brought back online?"

"Its possible. Should I call Elita and tell her the good news about Wolf?"

"No, not until there's an absolute possibility of reactivating Wolf. I don't want to get her hopes up only to devastate her again for a 3rd time. Let's just keep this between you and I for now. What about Sunstreaker? Is there a chance for him?"

"I'm not sure yet."

"Keep me updated, Ratchet."

"I will, Prime. What do you plan to do?"

"I'm heading to Decepticon HQ to talk to Megatron. He's Wolf's father. I have to make sure he's ok. Him and I aren't that different."

"I could have told you that, Prime. I did a secret scan while he was here. When you talk to him, tell him he needs Hook to check his energon pressure. It was hiking."

Prime nodded and left med bay. Ratchet decided to run his scanner over Sunstreaker and noticed the same results as Wolf.

"You 2 purposely shut yourselves down cause of what Sideswipe did. That's selfish." Ratchet knew they were going to hate him for what he's about to do to them.

He started with Wolf. Ratchet opened her chestplate and manually reactivated her, then did the same to Sunstreaker.

Ratchet went to his office and did some research while both Wolf and Sunstreaker slowly came back online.

He looked out into med bay every few mins. and noticed that one of them was waking up. It was Sunstreaker. He stood up from his desk and walked out.

"What's my brother and sister doing in here? Why am I here?"

"You don't remember dropping like a ton of bricks in your room?"

"No. All I remember is getting something to drink for Elita and I, then waking up here just now. Nothing inbetween."

Right before Ratchet said anything more, they both heard a noise. They looked over and saw Wolf sitting up.

"Wha…what happened?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out, sis."

I put my hand over my spark. I could feel Sunny, but couldn't feel Sides. I looked at Sunny.

~I can't feel Sides, bro.~

~I can't either.~

Both Wolf and Sunny looked at Ratchet. "I know you want answers about Sideswipe. You both should ask Prime about it. He was there, I wasn't."

"Where is he?"

"He went to talk to Megatron. He wanted to make sure he was ok. We all thought both of you were dead."

"No. I was dangerously low on energy. That's why I was filling up a mug of regular energon for Elita and myself."

"When I couldn't feel you or Sides, I put up a mental wall in case it was the inevitable. Then I manually shut myself down. It was easier than my spark just ceasing to pulsate."

"Wolf, you came in with Prime when he carried Sideswipe in."

Sunny looked at me. "What? I don't remember that."

"You weren't in the best of shape at the time. Prime told me that he showed you what Sideswipe did."

"Please Ratchet. Tell me what he said. I don't remember what was said, either. I remember someone saying something about him, but that's it."

"Prime told me that Sideswipe tore is spark casing clean out of his chest and smashed it. He tried to stop him, but his mind was made up. You were awake when your brother was brought in, Sunstreaker. I'm sorry you don't remember that."

Sunny sat there and racked his memory banks 'til he found what he was looking for. "I was awake when Sides was brought in. You were right, Ratchet."

"You told Prime that you don't hold it against him cause he tried to stop your brother from doing it."

"Don't hit me with a wrench, Ratch, but if you took a sliver of mine and a sliver of Sunny's spark, could Sides be brought back?"

"I don't think so. I won't take half of each of your sparks either. Sunstreaker, you wouldn't survive even if I tried that. And I won't even attempt it with you, Wolf. Prime would have my head."

"I think my mom would too. Speaking of her. I need to call her and give her the biggest surprise of her life."

"Not yet. I need to contact Prime and tell him the good news first. He suggested keeping it under wraps 'til it was absolutely possible to bring you both back."

Ratchet called Prime on his comm. and told him the good news. "That's very good news, Ratchet. Elita will be very happy to hear the good news. Thank you. Megatron and I will be there soon. Prime out."

"What was that about, Prime? What good news?"

"Wolf wasn't dead like we thought. She manually shut herself down after Sideswipe committed suicide. Sunstreaker was dangerously low on energy, so he shut himself down to conserve what he had left."

"My daughter is fully functional?"

"Yes. Shall we go see her?"

"Yes. I'm glad she wasn't dead. I get to spend time with my daughter now."
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Autobot HQ. Med bay. Ratchet was still going over our scans and giving us our maintenance checks. Apparently, we both neglected to come in when it was time for them. Oops.

Both Prime and Megatron walked into med bay as Ratchet was just finishing up with Sunny.

"You're next, Wolf. And don't give me any problems like your brother did or you'll get a wrench upside the head."

"You know I don't give you problems, Ratchet. I'm not like the others."

"True, but there's a first time for everything. Now, sit still."

"You enjoy my company, though."

"True, I do enjoy your company. You're a great friend."

"We come in at a bad time, Ratchet?"

Ratchet and I looked towards Prime and Megatron. "Nope. Just giving these 2 their way overdue maintenance checks. I can take you next, Prime."

Optimus was going to protest, but thought better of it. He knew Ratchet was notorious for hitting mechs upside the head with wrenches. He knew he was overdue for his maintenance check, too.

They both sat down and waited while Wolf was getting hers taken care of. "Now lay down and I'll check everything under the hood."

I laid down anda let Ratchet finish up with me. "Ratchet, I am so sorry about Sides. If you ever wanna talk, you can come see me. He was my brother. I understand the pain you're going through. Sunny does too. Come to either of us, ok."

Ratchet had just finished up with my maintenance check and closed my chest plate. He smiled and nodded. "You're done, Wolf. I'd like you to come back in the next 2 weeks for a follow up."

"Sure thing, Ratch. I meant what I said. We're here for you."

"Thanks. Go. I think your mother needs to be happy again. Go surprise her." I nodded then left med bay. Megatron stood up and was about to follow me when Ratchet stopped him.

"Where do you think you're going? You're after Prime."

"I'll get mine done back at Decepticon HQ."

"You're here, so you're getting it done here. I'm not opposed to hitting you with a wrench either, Megatron."

"Don't anger the wrench throwing medic, Megatron. Ratchet means business."

Megatron saw Ratchet reaching for a wrench to throw. Megatron sighed. "Fine."

Prime chuckled a bit. "You would find this funny, wouldn't you, Prime?"

"I know better than to anger him."

"Since when, Optimus? How many wrenches have you been hit with over the yrs.?"

"Busted." Ratchet looked at Sunny. "I thought you left?"

"Nope. I need to talk to you after you're done with them."

"Why don't you go surprise Elita as well. She was so spark broken when she thought you and Wolf were dead."

"Let me know when you're done with them so I can come back."

"I will. Sunstreaker, I'm sorry about your brother."

"Thanks Ratchet."
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Smokescreen's office. Sunstreaker knocked on the door. "Enter."

Sunny opened the door and saw that both Elita and Wolf were sitting on the sofa.

"I didn't mean to interrupt. I can come back later."

Elita got up from the sofa and hugged Sunny tightly. "I must be dreaming. I thought…"

"I had shut myself down cause I was dangerously low on energy. I'm sorry for scaring you, Elita. I needed to conserve the little bit I had."

"Don't you ever do that to me again, Suntreaker! My spark can only take so much sparkache."

"I'm sorry, my pink petunia. Please forgive me?"

Elita smiled and hugged him again. He wrapped his arms around waist and hugged her back.

Smokescreen looked very confused. "Someone fill me in on what's going on." Sunny and Elita came over to the sofa and sat down next to me.

"We both shut ourselves down manually, Smokey. After losing Sides, I put up a mental block then shut myself down. It was better than the alternative."

"I agree."

"I shut myself down to conserve what energy I had. I went to get some energon from my personal dispenser when I dropped. My HUD warned me to refuel and I was about to. I figured it was safer to shut the rest of my systems down to be honest."

"We both scared my mom, bro. We owe her a big apology."

"You're right, sis. We did scare her." Then he looked at Elita. "You know we didn't mean to do that, Elita. It was not our intentions to make you feel sparkbroken…again."

"Yeah, mom. We are so sorry. Sunny and I are going to need help since Sides is dead. We have no idea what's going to happen to us, but whatever happens, just be there for us."

"I'm always going to be there for you, sweetie. I'm your mother. That will never change." I hugged my mom tightly. "I love you, mom."

"I love you too, sweetie. Did you get a chance to talk to Megatron yet?"

"Yes, I did. I'm hoping to talk to him more after Ratchet gets done with him."

Just then, I got a call on my comm. I screened the call. "Its dad."

"Go ahead, Wolf. Come see me tomorrow afternoon to finish up your appointment."

"I will, Smokey. Thanks."

I stood up from the sofa and walked out of his office, then I answered the call. "Hey dad. What can I do for ya?"

"You're not going to ask how I called on the Autobot frequency?"

"Nope. I'm sure you have your ways or Optimus gave you my comm. link number. I'm betting on the latter."

"You're good. He did actually."

"I figured as much. I will ask again. What can I do for ya?"

"I'd like to spend some time with you, if you're not busy."

"Not busy at all. I just left Smokescreen's office. Mom is so happy that I wasn't dead."

"I'm glad you're not either. Can we go somewhere secluded and talk?"

"Sure. I'll let you pick the place. No funny business, either. I'm just as ruthless as my brother."

"I'm well aware of that. I've seen you on the battlefield. You and the other 2 liked to cause problems for my seekers."

"We were just having fun, dad. If we wanted to rip them apart, we would have done that decades ago."

Megatron growled low in his throat. "Don't use that with me, dad. This is peace time. You wanted to talk and get to know me, so, let's do that."

He sighed. "I'm sorry, Wolf. The seekers are my best warriors. That's including Starscream."

"What happened to him?"

"I'll tell you when we get to our destination. Meet me out front of Autobot HQ."

"Sure thing, dad. See ya shortly." Then I ended the call.

I was walking down the hall while on my comm. with Megatron. I had stopped short of my office and noticed the door was open. I peeked in and saw Prime sitting at my desk.

"Hey big guy. You look a little out of place in my office."

"If you remember, this was my office at one time."

"And now its mine."

"Was that Megatron?"

"Yep. Gonna meet up with him out front then head somewhere secluded. He wants to get to know me more and doesn't want distractions."

"I can understand that. Thank you for letting me know. How long do you think you'll be gone? I have a date night planned for us tonight."

"Not sure yet. I'll let ya know. As for date night. As long as its not a trip to Cybertron, I don't care where we go."

"How about a drive-in theater? I just happen to know the owner of this particular one we're going to. I have it reserved for just you and I tonight."

"Do I wanna know or no?"

"I'll tell ya when you get back. Just be safe, beautiful."

"I will, handsome. I love you."

"I love you too." Then I headed on to the front of HQ to meet up with my dad.
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"That took longer than it should."

"Sorry. I was on my way out when I saw Prime sitting in my office. At one time, it was his, but when he left me in command of the team, it became mine. Now, he looks out of place in it."

"So, you and him talked for a few mins. before you came out here?"

"Yep. I hate to ask this, but how long were we planning on talking for?"

"You in a hurry or something?"

"Just found out he's got a date night planned for us tonight. That's why I was asking."

"I'd like to spend a few hours with you."

"That's fine. Where did you wanna go?"

"There's a cliffside out by the ocean where my base is. Would you mind if we went there?"

"Not at all. Something tells me you go and sit out there before anyone wakes up."

"Guilty. I enjoy watching the sun come up in the morning. I've come to enjoy the beauty of this planet over time. I just don't let anyone know that. Starscream would have found it weak on my part and attempt to take over."

"I'll ask you about him when we get to our destination. Let's fly." Then I took off for the sky. He was shocked that I could fly. He took off into the sky after me.

"I thought all you Autobots couldn't fly."

"Not all. There's a few of us who still can. I'm one who can still fly, of course. I wasn't including those that were built for flying."

"I figured that. Its actually nice to be war free. At the point we were at in the war, no one was going to win."

"I'm glad its over, too. Mom was tired of watching me fight on the front lines with my brothers."

"Skywarp and Thundercracker are still talking about you 3."

"Is that a bad thing? I told you it was all in good fun. Prime wouldn't allow us to kill them even if we wanted to."

"I'm glad he didn't. Ah, here we are. Let's land, sit down and talk."

"Sounds good to me, dad."

"I don't think I'll ever get use to that."

"In time you will."

We landed at the cliffside he mentioned. We sat down and I couldn't believe the view. I whistled.

"You were right. It is beautiful."

"Glad you agree. You should see it when the sun is coming up."

"I'll have to come by sometime when you're here. Maybe we could have a tankard of energon one morning and sit and talk."

"I'd like that. You wanted to know about Starscream. Can I ask why?"

"Was wondering what happened to him. I asked 'Warp and he didn't say a word."

"Skywarp and the other seekers were told not to say a word. I had Starscream exiled from the planet forever. He still wanted to continue the war after Prime and I called a permanent ceasefire."

"Why didn't anyone tell me? Was this before he and my mom left for Cybertron?"

"Yes, it was. Were you friends with him still?"

"More like acquaintances. We have a mutual love for science."

"He gave up all that when he became my 2IC and Air Commander of the seekers. I'm surprised he was still dabbling in the art of science."

"There's a lot you didn't know he was doing after the war was over. Him and I talked a lot about Cybertronian science and how it differs from Earth sciences."

"During the war, we could have tipped the scales in our favor if he was still into our sciences."

"Dad?" I gave him a stern look and had my arms crossed over my chest.

"I said during the war. Do you think I want to get in a fire fight with you now? I don't need your mother trying to kill me for killing you."

"Agreed. So, what do you wanna know about your beautiful but dangerous daughter?"

"I will agree. You are dangerous. I've seen it first hand. You fight just as dirty as I do."

"I have my brothers to thank for that. They taught me to fight like them. I'm glad they did, too. I would have lost my life a lot sooner."

"Honestly, I would have made sure you were never on the battlefield, if I had known about you sooner."

"Don't tell me that the war was a mech's war and femmes had no business fighting in it."

"You definitely sound like your mother. I would never say that. Your mother and her team were fighting in this war as much as we were. I'm going to be honest with you. Your mother told me that if she hadn't been with Prime at the time, she would have stayed with me."

"I would have been fine being raised among the Decepticons, if that's what mom would have done. I'm glad I'm an Autobot, but I would have been fine being a Decepticon, too."

"Would you ever switch sides?"

"No. Only cause what it would do to Optimus. I love him, dad. I can't hurt him like that."

"Answer me honestly. If he were to ever hurt you in any way, would you come straight to me and tell me?"

"Of course I would. You're my father. Why wouldn't I?"

"Cause of your temper. You inherited a lot from me. Especially my energon pressure problem."

"My temper has been pretty docile other than the 2 times it skyrocketed. The 2nd time was so bad that I ended up dying."

"That's when I came and dug you up."

"Prime thought you would have some morals and not do that. Guess he was wrong."

"No, he was right. I do have morals, and I shouldn't have dug you up and had you reactivated. I needed to get to know you."

"All you had to do was ask mom. She would have told you everything about me."

"You're right. I should have. I shouldn't have desecrated your grave. I am so sorry."

I hugged my dad. "You're forgiven, dad. I'm just glad I'm here."

"I am too, sweetie. I am too." He hugged me back.

"Can I ask you something, dad?"

"Of course."

"Your fusion cannon. Have you thought about retiring it? I know it comes off your arm. I've seen some of the footage from past battles."

"I have thought about it recently. Not sure I really can. I'm not me without it."

"You can be. I'll take it back to Autobot HQ if you wanna retire it."

"Don't let anyone mess with it. Especially not Brawn."

"I saw that footage. That was funny."

"I never knew how it felt to be shot by my own weapon until that day. That hurt."

"I'm not trying to make you mad, but I think you had that coming."

"You're right. I did. I would have expected that from Prime, not Brawn."

"That was the fight at the Inca Temples, wasn't it?"

"Yes, it was. You have a good memory."

"I've heard a lot of stories about that fight." I checked my internal clock. It was around 8p.

"I had no idea we had been here for longer than I wanted. Its 8p. I need to get going, dad. I don't wanna ruin date night with the mech I love."

"Thank you for spending time with me, my daughter. If you're up for it, I'd like to do this again tomorrow morning before the sun comes up."

"If I'm up. I have a feeling we'll be up all night."

"Understood. Have a good night, sweetie." Then he hugged me. I hugged him back.

"I love you, dad."

"I love you too, Wolf." Then I stood up and took off into the sky and headed back to Autobot HQ.
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8:15p. I landed in front of HQ and headed inside. I didn't even get 3 feet in when Prime walked up to me. He wrapped his arms around my slender waist. I wrapped my arms around his neck.

"How was your talk with Megatron?"

"It was good. I learned a few things about him and he learned a few things about me."

"Oh? Like what?"

"I found out that he actually enjoys the beauty of Earth."

"What's not to love? I even enjoy the beauty of this planet. I know Sunstreaker does, too."

"That's for sure. He doesn't like the change in the seasons, though."

"Not all of us have 4 wheel drive. It was nice to see Ratchet get out of med bay that day when we had snow."

"I was elsewhere when that happened. I would have loved to see him actually having fun. One of those rare times, huh?"

"You could say that. Are you ready to go?"

"Yep. Are you?"

"Of course. I was just coming to see if you had shown up when you landed."

"I didn't wanna ruin our first date night."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, stud. What's the movie we're gonna see?"

"You'll find out when we get there, beautiful. Let's roll."